For one and all, or high or low,25
Will lead you where you wish to go;
And one and all go night and day
Over the hills and far away!
R. L. Stevenson.
[NOTES]
The difficulty has been to select from a wealth of poems with which volumes could have been filled. Indeed three collections dealing exclusively with Greece, with Italy, and with Switzerland have already been published by the Oxford University Press. In this volume the traveller is not confined to one country, and he is not asked to drag a lengthening chain beyond the limits of Europe. Here are some poems about travel generally, and then country by country a grand tour is traced. My obligation to the authors or owners of copyright poems is duly acknowledged with grateful thanks.
P. [7]. Clough.—The opening lines of Amours de Voyage.
P. [7]. Tennyson.—A few lines only from Ulysses.
P. [8]. Goldsmith.—From The Traveller.
P. [11]. Bridges.—By kind permission of the Poet Laureate and Messrs. Smith, Elder.